"It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul."

-- Etgar Keret

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. Weâ€™re all going to have bummer moments. Thatâ€™s not the stuff I choose to share.”
“Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made Sicily a fascinating place, quite unlike any other.”
“Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.”
“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”

Source : "The Definitive Imagined Emma Watson Commencement Speech" by Katie Calautti, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2014.
“Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.”

Source : Errico Malatesta, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) (1933). “A talk between two workers”
“Now that I'm here, all I wanna do is get better. I wanna be the best I can be.”
“A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.”

Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers
“I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.”

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